Webinar: Good Grief

Here are some resources men­tioned in the Good Grief: How can we nav­i­gate sor­row and loss in life-giv­ing ways? web­cast con­ver­sa­tion between Dou­glas Mck­elvey, Mark Buchanan, and Car­olyn Arends.

Resources Rec­om­mend­ed by Mark Buchanan

• Books by Mark 

  • Spir­i­tu­al Rhythm: Being with Jesus Every Sea­son of Your Soul

  • David: Rise

  • God Walk: Mov­ing at the Speed of Your Soul

  • Your Church Is Too Safe: Why Fol­low­ing Christ Turns the World Upside

  • Hid­den In Plain Sight

  • The Rest Of God: Restor­ing Your Soul by Restor­ing Sabbath

  • Things Unseen: Liv­ing in Light of Forever

  • The Holy Wild: Trust­ing in the Char­ac­ter of God

  • Your God Is Too Safe: Redis­cov­er­ing the Won­der of a God You Can’t Control

• Resources men­tioned by Mark 

  • Cor­nelius Planti­nga: Not the Way It’s Sup­posed to Be: A Bre­viary of Sin

  • Ernest Beck­er: The Denial of Death

• Mark’s Web­site

• Mark’s Social Media: Face­book, and Twit­ter,

Resources rec­om­mend­ed by Dou­glas McKelvey

• Books by Doug 

  • Every Moment Holy, Vol­ume 1

  • Every Moment Holy, Vol­ume 2: Death, Grief, and Hope

  • The Angel Knew Papa and the Dog

• Litur­gies read dur­ing the webinar:
  • A Litur­gy Before Mourn­ing With Those Who Mourn
  • A Litur­gy for Embrac­ing Both Joy and Sorrow

• Arti­cles writ­ten by Doug: 

  • 100-Year Vision

  • On the Pos­si­bil­i­ty of Being Met in Winter

• Resources men­tioned by Doug 

  • Nicholas Wolter­storff: Lament for a Son

  • Arti­cle by Tim Keller about fac­ing Death

  • Quote: ​“What is grief, if not love per­se­ver­ing?” — Vision on Wandavision

• Doug’s Web­site

• Every Moment Holy Website

Resources rec­om­mend­ed by Car­olyn Arends

• Songs about Grief and Loss 

  • Pool of Tears (webi­nar open­ing song)

  • To Cry For You

  • Let Love Lead You Home

  • We’ve Been Wait­ing for You

  • Just Get­ting Started

  • Infor­ma­tion about Carolyn’s new albums

• Arti­cles

  • Sto­icism Isn’t Spir­i­tu­al: What Grief is Teach­ing Me About Becom­ing Ful­ly Human

  • Going Down Singing: Why We Should Remem­ber That We Will Die

  • Allow for Space in the Music: Acknowl­edg­ing the Mys­tery of Pain

• The cur­rent Ren­o­varé Pod­cast includes a con­ver­sa­tion with Car­olyn about, among oth­er things, grief.

• The Under­tak­ing by Thomas Lynch

  • Quote: ​“Grief is the tax we pay on loving.”

• Fred­er­ick Buech­n­er Quote: 

  • “We expe­ri­ence all the hor­rors that go on both around us and with­in us as hor­rors rather than as just the way the cook­ie crum­bles because, in our inner­most hearts, we belong to Holi­ness, which they are a trag­ic depar­ture from.” (from Eyes of the Heart)

• Prayer by Dal­las Willard:

My Prayer For You

That you would have a rich life of joy and pow­er, abun­dant in super­nat­ur­al results, with a con­stant, clear vision of nev­er-end­ing life in God’s World before you, and of the ever­last­ing sig­nif­i­cance of your work­day by day.

A radi­ant life and radi­ant death.

- Dal­las Willard

Oth­er Resources Men­tioned in the Webi­nar and Chat:

• Shirley Thiessen: The Lit­tle Black Funer­al Dress — Five things I Wish I’d Known About Grief
• Mac­rina Wiederkehr: Gold in Your Mem­o­ries: Sacred Moments
• Joseph Bay­ly: The View from a Hearse
• Thomas Lynch: The Under­tak­ing: Life Stud­ies from the Dis­mal Trade
• Fran­cis Weller: The Wild Edge of Sor­row: Rit­u­als of Renew­al and the Sacred Work of Grief
• Atul Gawande: Being Mor­tal: Med­i­cine and What Mat­ters in the End
• Irvin D. Yalom: A Mat­ter of Death and Life
• Arti­cle: Mar­garet Ben­nett: A Mother’s Lament to Her Son
• Movie: The Social Dilem­ma (Net­flix)
  
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